Hi J. Walker, in one of your postings I read the following sentence…
“I would be much more concerned about seeing an electrologist using a Kree or Proteus machine instead of the difference between an Apilus Cleo and an Apilus Platinum”
Can you clarify? Should we, the clients, stay away from Kree and Proteus?
Also, I know of an electrolysis that uses a machine that’s @12 years old (she does thermolysis, microflash, short wave, whatever you want to call it)…it’s one of those with the knobs, not digital…not sure of the grand though. Do you thing this machine is capable of getting the work done like to newer ones, such as Apilus Senior of Platinum, or should I stay away from it and look for an electrologist that uses more up to date equipment?
Here is the fine line I walk here.
All ligetimate electrolysis machines work.
All ligetimate electrolysis machines will provide good and permanent hair removal WHEN OPERATED BY A COMPETENT PRACTITIONER who utilizes the machines potential.
What changes from machine to machine and practitioner to practitioner is the speed and comfort that can be had as the best possible outcome, and even more so, the most common and most likely speed and comfort level. To this extent, the computerized machines have a higher availability to give the fastest, most comfortable treatments, WHEN USED PROPERLY.
If you have read a lot of what I say on this subject, you have no doubt read, and I will repeat again here the analogy: "The difference between machines and practitioners is such that it is like you racing Al Unser and Mario Andretti in a race where Unser and Andretti are driving a stock Yugo GV and a Ford Festiva, both with 3 speed Manual Transmission and a 3 stroke 1.3 liter engine while YOU GET TO DRIVE THEIR INDY 500 CAR! As long as you don’t crash, you should win the race even though you don’t know what you are doing in that Race Car.
You have to find out who is the best practitioner in your area by evaluating their treatment results and speed, and then, the machines and visual aids they are using is the next criteria to look to when choosing. The thing one notices is that often the person with the better equipment can do better work than the person with more years experience, because they have better tools.
So I would not say don’t even give a person a chance just because they have old equipment, however, one frequently finds the person with the newer stuff at least have more client comfort to their treatments, and can work faster than the person who does not.
I wish more consumers cared about qualifications! I believe that the education and then the continuing education of an electrologist is a very valuable quality to look for. Some consumers don’t take into consideration what a poorly experienced electrologist might do to them.
If consumers would conduct their search in some way other than, “Call around on the phone to find the person charging the lowest quoted hourly rate (the quote may not be the full price actually paid at treatment’s end due to hidden fees) and whoever is willing to see them that day, and then getting too lazy to take other consults and samples once they have had their first treatment with the person who was able to see them at the first available appointment time” they might get to see the vast difference between practitioners this field really has.